Feeling the earth spin
Posted on | May 7, 2007 |
I used to be able to lie down on the grass and relax into the very center of my solar plexus and feel the earth spin. Really. My whole body would tune to the thrumming velocity of the earth twirling on its axis very fast, gravity pressing my body into the ground. Then one day I couldn’t do it any more. Now, I’ll lie down like I did today after a run, and for a brief moment I’ll feel myself almost slip to that place, but then I’ll snap back into myself, like snapping back from almost falling asleep. Has this ever happened to you?
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May 7th, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
I get what I think is a comparable feeling, but it has to do with feeling the volume of the universe — not pressing down on me but me, instead, pressing out against it, equally in all directions, to the ends of the universe as it were. I first got this feeling when I read that since the universe is expanding in all directions from every point, the “big bang” is still underway, so that each of us is, in fact, at the very center of the universe. It is that sense of being at the center of “things” that I think may be comparable to your sense of feeling the earth spin.
Or maybe we’re both crazy.
But I don’t think so.
May 8th, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
sounds like when I realized I was a real grown-up because my imagination wouldn’t work like it used to. it was a sad day.
May 14th, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Yes! I completely used to think that I had that super power. I was so convinced when I was younger that my friends would lay around me and I would tell them all what it was like. I don’t remember when I wasn’t able to do this anymore but the further I got away from it the more I just wrote it off as funny kids stuff. I rationalized, it was lack of sleep or low blood sugar. But I never forgot how terrific it was to believe - I guess I just forgot “how” to believe.
May 14th, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
Whoa - I have NEVER heard anybody else talk about this! I used to do this a LOT as a kid, and I can still do it today - but it sneaks up on me. It happens when I’m in bed sometimes, just lying there, getting ready for sleep, thinking about some far-off thing…
This is seriously cool, that you mention this…I feel like I’m not so alone in the universe…
be blessed…
June 24th, 2007 @ 6:10 pm
This feeling that we have all experienced never dies, i admit ive felt it in a more faded way recently though. Next year ill be a legal adult, i have felt this almost my whole life and i am continuing to… it feels like i have something special that no-one else seems to have around me (im reassured by the post and its comments) its like an immaterial and inexplainable gift. I guess to sum it up… I beleive those who feel this are all just more connected to the exact centre of themselves, the exact zero point on each of our own axis that allows us to chanell pure bliss that isnt crooked by outside sources and this gives us the ability to write and create beautiful and profound things that drop off a little inspiration into whoever we meet.
I hope ive made a little sense here and if i havent…well, look deeper =]
Ben.
June 27th, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
I was a kid. Laying out in the backyard staring up at the stars, when I wondered how the earth looked from up there. I then experianced the sensation of the earth spinning and myself restained from flying off into the sky by a tangible force that we know as gravity. It terrified me. I was afraid that I might upset this force somehow by observing it and would then no longer be tied to the ground like normal. I gripped the grass in both fists and crawled back towards the house pulling up fistfulls of the lawn the whole time.
July 17th, 2007 @ 12:18 am
I came across this site looking for other people who feel the earth spin. I don’t, but my 13 year old son does. He has autism and it freak him out. I was looking for possible remedies to help him feel more grounded when it happens. Does anyone have any solutions?